Hindlimb unloading in adult rats using an alternative tail harness design

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 75, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 692-696

  Knox, Micheal ^a   Fluckey, James D ^a   Bennett, Patrick ^a   Peterson, Charlotte A ^a   Dupont Versteegden, Esther E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS FOR MEDICAL SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Fecal corticosterone; Muscle atrophy; Simulated microgravity; Soleus

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADRENAL GLAND; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BONE MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FECES ANALYSIS; FECES LEVEL; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; HEALTH STATUS; HINDLIMB UNLOADING; MALE; MICROGRAVITY; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE MASS; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; PLANTARIS MUSCLE; RAT; SIMULATION; SOLEUS MUSCLE; SPACE FLIGHT; STRESS; TAIL HARNESS; WALKING AID;

ADRENAL GLANDS; ANIMALS; CORTICOSTERONE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FECES; HINDLIMB SUSPENSION; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; ORGAN SIZE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RESEARCH; SPACE FLIGHT; STRESS; TAIL; WEIGHT LOSS; WEIGHT-BEARING; WEIGHTLESSNESS SIMULATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 3442882486     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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